In July 2016 I made my way to the Del Rio Diner, Kings Highway and West 12th Street, having heard of its impending closure. NYC’s classic diners have been shutting…
Brooklyn
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I was in DUMBO in Brooklyn on the first hot day of the year in the spring in 2017 and happened upon this photo shoot on Plymouth Street. Many newcomers…
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In my now lost youth, I would bicycle all over Brooklyn and Queens from Bay Ridge before bicycling became a religion at whose altar politicians worshiped, creating green bicycle lanes…
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BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…
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I have always thought that Brooklyn should have a somewhat wary, adversarial relationship with Manhattan, albeit a cordial one. With that in mind I had no idea why a beach…
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THE French Renaissance Grand Prospect Hall, 263 Prospect Avenue just south of 5th Avenue in Park Slope, was familiar to NYC viewers from its ubiquitous commercials: “We make your dreams come true!”…
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THERE are a number of buildings around town, a few dozen at least, in which I can honestly say I would like to live, at least temporarily. In fact there…
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In the literary world, a palimpsest refers to “a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.”…
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THIS wall painting marking a cosmetics factory for Nutrine cosmetics was in decent shape when I first spotted it nearly a quarter century ago and it hasn’t faded much since.…
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I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…
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A large, hulking brick building, currently used as a garage, stands at the NW corner of Liberty and Sheffield Avenues in East New York. A row of bricked-up windows on…
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Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…